about us : our beliefs
Values
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to the spiritual formation of the individual.
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to partnering with the local church in ministry.
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to God's value of individuals regardless of the individual's race, color or gender.
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to seeking innovative approaches to worship.
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to the Biblical exposition and exegesis of Holy Scripture as the primary means of preaching and teaching.
- Wayfarer Ministries is committed to its statement of faith, taken from The Amsterdam Declaration 2000.
Statement of Faith
God
God is the self-revealed Creator, Upholder, Governor, and Lord of the universe. This
God is eternal in his self-existence and unchanging in his holy love, goodness, justice,
wisdom, and faithfulness to his promises. God in his own being is a community of
three co-equal and co-eternal persons, who are revealed to us in the Bible as the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Together they are involved in an unvarying
cooperative pattern in all God's relationships to and within this world. God is Lord
of history, where he blesses his own people, overcomes and judges human and angelic
rebels against his rule, and will finally renew the whole created order.
Jesus Christ
Jesus was and is the second person of the triune Godhead, now and forever incarnate.
He was virgin-born, lived a life of perfect godliness, died on the cross as the substitutionary
sacrifice for our sins, was raised bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, reigns
now over the universe and will personally return for judgment and the renewal of
all things. As the God-man, once crucified, now enthroned, he is the Lord and Savior
who in love fulfills toward us the threefold mediational ministry of prophet, priest,
and king. His title, “Christ,” proclaims him the anointed servant of God who fulfills
all the Messianic hopes of the canonical Old Testament.
Holy Spirit
Shown by the words of Jesus to be the third divine person, whose name, “Spirit,” pictures
the energy of breath and wind, the Holy Spirit is the dynamic personal presence of
the Trinity in the processes of the created world, in the communication of divine
truth, in the attesting of Jesus Christ, in the new creation through him of believers
and of the church, and in ongoing fellowship and service. The fullness of the ministry
of the Holy Spirit in relation to the knowledge of Christ and the enjoyment of new
life in him dates from the Pentecostal outpouring recorded in Acts 2. As the divine
inspirer and interpreter of the Bible, the Spirit empowers God's people to set forth
accurate, searching, life-transforming presentations of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
and makes their communication a fruitful means of grace to their hearers. The New
Testament shows us the supernatural power of the Spirit working miracles, signs and
wonders, bestowing gifts of many kinds, and overcoming the power of Satan in human
lives for the advancement of the gospel. Christians agree that the power of the Holy
Spirit is vitally necessary for evangelism and that openness to his ministry should
mark all believers.
Salvation
This word means rescue from guilt, defilement, spiritual blindness and deadness,
alienation from God, and certainty of eternal punishment in hell that is everyone's
condition while under sin's dominion. This deliverance involves present justification,
reconciliation to God and adoption into his family, with regeneration and the sanctifying
gift of the Holy Spirit leading to works of righteousness and service here and now,
and a promise of full glorification in fellowship with God in the future. This involves
in the present life joy, peace, freedom and the transformation of character and relationships
and the guarantee of complete healing at the future resurrection of the body. We
are justified by faith alone and the salvation faith brings is by grace alone, through
Christ alone, for the glory of God alone.
The Scriptures
We believe that the Bible is God's revelation of Himself to man. God is the author
of the Scriptures. The 66 books of the Old and New Testaments constitute the written
Word of God. As the inspired revelation of God in writing, the Scriptures are totally
true and trustworthy, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. In every
age and every place, this authoritative Bible, by the Spirit's power, is efficacious
for salvation through its witness to Jesus Christ.